How do you calculate the disk space available for data storage and how much disk space is utilised for parity storage in a RAID 5 configuration? RAID 5, if applied correctly and against a suitable I/O ...

What is the maximum number of physical drives in a RAID 5 configuration? For example, will data recovery in case of drive failure(s) be practical if I have seven 146 GB drives? RAID 5 recovery: A RAID ...

I have a P5B-E and had been running off a single 500GB boot drive. I added 4 more 500GB drives today and tried to make a single 2TB boot volume but the BIOS utility wouldn't let me select all 5 drives ...

Hi...<BR><BR>I am looking at putting a new Server together which will be used as our new Exchange Server. <BR><BR>I could use some advice regarding disk drives.<BR ...

As you can see from the throughput chart, the RAID5 (with four drives), all out sequential performance is out of this world at 218 MB/sec (1.744 gbps) read and 193 MB/sec (1.544 gbps) write, which ...